[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, November 1, 1860
State of Arkansas,}
County of Greene.}
On this 10th day of October, 1860, at a regular session of the County Court of Greene county, Arkansas, it was brought to the notice of the County Court, that the property of our citizens was daily endangered by the acts of unknown persons, who have in the course of a few weeks past, stolen and conveyed off a considerable amount of property in slaves and horses; as the officers of law, have as yet, been unable to discover traces of the persons who are committing said depredations—It is, therefore, recommended to the citizens of the different townships of this county, that they organize Vigilance committees to ferret out the perpetrators of these above cited acts, and also to detain and examine all suspicious characters, who may be going about without any ostensible business, and make them account for their presence among us; and that the following persons be requested to act and take the lead in the formation of said Vigilance committees:
Chalk Bluff Township.—A. M. Boyd, Wm. Liddell and H. W. Granade.
Concorde Township.—F. S. White, E. M. Allen and W. R. Kibler.
Bradshaw Township.—Henry Holcomb, Watson Forest and T. Dalton.
Union Township.—A. H. Davies, T. H. Wyse and J. B. Williamson.
St. Francis Township.—J. C. Graham, J. W. Knight and A. Strickland.
Cache Township.—G. B. Croft, J. R. Grambling and S. Willcoxon.
Salem Township.—J. Lamb, J. S. Anderson and Wm. C. Thompson.
And that the Little Rock Old-Line Democrat and Pocahontas Weekly Advertiser, be requested to publish the above Resolutions, and request other papers to copy; and that the same be spread upon the records of this court.
Thomas Clark, Judge,
True copy: Geo. Leech, As’t. J. W. Rogers, Assistant.